TYE 2018 Global Competition

TYE 2018 Global Competition

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TYE 2018 Global Competition

Last month, TiE DC played host to high school students from 20 TiE chapters around the world as they competed for $10,000 in prizes at the TiE Young Entrepreneurs (TYE) 2018 Global Competition. The two-day event at the Virginia Tech Research Center and George Mason Founders Hall was made possible through the generosity of Platinum Sponsor Infinite Computer Solutions, with support from NETE, the Virginia Tech Apex Center for Entrepreneurship and the George Mason Center for Innovation and Entrepreneurship.

The competition got off to an exciting start at 7:30am on Friday, June 22 at Virginia Tech’s state of the art facility, with videoconference presentations from Rajasthan, Chandigarh, Kanpur (pictured below), Hubli, Chennai, Kerala and Vancouver. The team from Delhi made good use of technology, sending one of their team members in person, and connecting the others via videoconference.

Our judges for the first day were: Nitin Rai, Chairman of TiE DC and President of TiE Oregon, Rajesh Rai, Partner at Montane Ventures, and Jim Wolfe, Professor and Entrepreneur in Residence at George Mason.

12 teams, along with their mentors and family members, were onsite, including Dallas, Melbourne, Southern California, Hyderabad, Oregon, Kolkata, Carolinas, DC, Philadelphia, Boston, Seattle, and Atlanta.

Saturday, June 23, the competition moved to George Mason Founders Hall, where teams displayed their products and prototypes at a Maker’s Faire. TiE DC members and families came out to see the teams and watch the exciting finish of the competition.

(Pictured above, from left to right: elevator pitch by Team Dallas – Concert Junkie, the judges, Ashoka Tankala and Anjana Arora from Infinite Computer Solutions.)
After a delicious lunch by Bollywood Bistro, the winners were announced, with Oregon’s Team Melaknow, developers of a screening tool for skin cancer built into a mobile app, as the overall winners:

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